Private Choices, Social Costs, and Public Policy Download

Author: Nancy Hammerle
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0275941728
Category: Medical

Private Choices, Social Costs, and Public Policy: An Economic Analysis of Public Health Issues

This data-rich work examines today's most compelling and controversial public health issues, including alcohol and drug abuse, AIDS, abortion, black and infant mortality, drug-affected babies, child abuse, teenage pregnancy, and cigarette smoking. Download Private Choices, Social Costs, and Public Policy medical books for free.
Hammerle's theme is that individual behavioral choices often have far-reaching and costly effects. When practiced by large numbers of people, the human and fiscal costs can be monumental, taxing virtually all of our social systems as well as our financial resources. Hammerle enumerates these costs and, employing economic analytical tools, recommends public policies that will reduce the incidence of such behavior or otherwise reduce its social cost. Some recommendations are outside the mainstream, bu Get Private Choices, Social Costs, and Public Policy our bestseller medical books.

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